gairaigo

Noun

Meaning

gairaigo (plural gairaigo)

A foreign, typically non-Sinitic loanword into Japanese.

Examples

Further, in rare cases gairaigo (borrowed words) have a single character associated with them, in which case this reading is formally classified as a kun'yomi, because the character is being used for meaning, not sound. Source: Internet

English and Japanese also have diverse false friends, many of them being wasei-eigo and gairaigo words. Source: Internet

See list of single character gairaigo for more. Source: Internet

This is discussed under single character gairaigo, below. Source: Internet

Usage main All Katakana writing (in 1940 In modern Japanese, katakana is most often used for transcription of words from foreign languages (other than words historically imported from Chinese), called gairaigo. Source: Internet

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